Chris Tilly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3611153 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Tilly |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Tilly |
| ASSINATURA | TILLY C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0332-1849 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Technological Change, Work and Power
Artificial intelligence and other digital technologies are rapidly transforming work, reviving longstanding questions about technology, labor, and power. While much attention has focused on AI's capabilities, its effects on work are neither uniform nor technologically determined. Rather, they depend on how digital technologies are embedded in practices and institutional power relations structuring authority, control, and autonomy. This editorial …
Global Sociologists for Palestine
Experiments in power-building
This special issue examines how contemporary organizations of informal workers have experimented with power-building strategies across countries, employment sectors, and time periods. Its findings hold important lessons for our attempts to adapt to changing political and institutional structures and ultimately build a new model of social justice. In this introductory article, we first offer an intellectual history and motivation for the special i…
Explaining informal workers’ organizing experiments
Informal workers’ recent organizing efforts deserve our attention. They have defied the odds and launched alternative models that are more relevant to contemporary structures of globalized and neoliberal production than earlier industrial union-based organizing efforts. While some have succeeded in increasing protections and others have failed, all have relied on informal workers’ willingness to experiment with new organizational forms, rules, an…
Is It Stigma, or Is It Starvation
The Politics of Informal Domestic and Construction Worker Organizing
The growing recognition that informal workers can organize successfully has generated debate over the determinants of effectiveness in such organizing. We contribute to this discussion by examining the cases of domestic and construction worker organizations in Mexico, using a power resources framework. Profiling these movements, the key obstacles they face, and their achievements, we undertake a threefold comparison. Within Mexico, we compare org…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Shifting Tides of Informal Worker Resistance in Mexico
Informal workers in Mexico, the majority of the country's workforce, have organised to demand rights, but with varying results. In this article, we contrast recent organising by Mexico's domestic workers and informal construction workers. Household worker movements have succeeded in institutionalising significant new organisations and raising public awareness. Construction workers, despite earlier militant counterexamples, have remained trapped b…
Informality in action
We conceptualize informal work in relational terms, examining informality through the relations and interactions between and among a set of actors: capitalists, the state, organizations of informal workers, traditional trade unions, individual informal workers. We consider the leading explanations of the persistent growth of informal employment around the world, suggest that three such explanations (survivalist, structuralist, and “disembedded”) …
Work Under Capitalism
Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the transaction rather than the individual, it builds upon a coherent theory and applies it to a wide range of experience, from household labour to transformations of health c
Field Education and Community-Based Planning in a Worst-Case Scenario
Community-engaged planning education and community-based planning are often uphill battles. This article uses the case of a Mexican village to illustrate a pedagogical model that trains students as participatory planners by immersing them in a community-based planning project, an approach we call transformative learning and community development. We join larger debates on education and participation—arguing that students can and should learn abou…
Combating Labor Precarity Is Hard Work
The Great Recession's Lasting Impact on Labor
[G]iven paltry real wages and the soul-crushing and skill-devaluing experience of long-term unemployment, fewer Americans are working at all
Governance Lessons from Urban Informality
We locate this issue’s papers on a spectrum of radicalism. We then examine that spectrum, and the governance mechanisms described, through the lens of a significant arena of urban counter-planning: the urban informal economy. Drawing on our own research on self-organization by informal workers and settlers, as well as broader literatures, we suggest useful lessons for reinventing urban governance
Down and Out in the New Economy
Precarious Labor, South and North
This special issue on precarious labor in global perspective includes analyses of precarious work in South Africa, Mexico, the United States, China and India. The key strengths of the contributions to this issue are that they demonstrate precarious workers’ capacity for collective action, the hidden forms of work that are not tracked by states, long-term historical continuities of precarious work, and differences between precarious work in the Gl…
The Unexpected Power of Informal Workers in the Public Square
Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face formidable structural obstacles to securing their rights as workers. Despite their apparent vulnerability, these informal workers have built perhaps the most powerful informal worker organizations in their countries. In this article, we explore and explain to the extent possible the sources, forms, and limits of this une…
Disintegrating Democracy at Work
Beyond Contratos de protección
As part of a long-standing debate about the extent to which official, government-linked unions in Mexico actively seek to win gains for their members, analysts of labor relations in Mexico have described the dominance of contratos de protección, collective bargaining contracts that offer little or nothing to workers while protecting employers from real union representation. In particular, a number of researchers have asserted that such contracts …
Labor in the Global South
Mark S. Anner opens Solidarity Transformed by referencing two wrenching changes that have transformed the world for workers: neoliberalism—the scaling back of welfare states, industrial policies, and labor protections—and globalization. He questions how these shifts have affected workers and how worker organizations in diverse settings have responded
New Trade Union Activism
Working in large food retailers in France and the USA
Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs, and in particular the modal job, cashier. Notably, there are differences in pay, productivity and physical working position. Using the concept of 'national-sectoral models' of employment practices, this research draws on in-depth, interview-based case studies of food retailers in France and the USA, as well as standard…
Contention and Trust in Cities and States
The impact of the economic crisis on international migration
The global economic crisis that exploded in 2008 dramatically changed the context for international migration. In that context, this review article addresses four related questions about migration from poor to rich countries. First, what has been the impact of the global recession on patterns of international migration? Second, to what extent do recession-induced changes in migration offer evidence in the debate among competing explanations of mi…
Confronting Globalization
Mexico is unique in Latin America in that it has one of the strongest bodies of labor law (on paper) in the region; but there are also the problems of deficient state enforcement capacity and weak unions that are seen in poorer countries. This context has opened a space for new actors and the use of alternative approaches to protect labor that extend beyond conventional government-based policies. The state of Puebla is ideal for observing the imp…
Soft' Skills and Race
We investigated changes in skill requirements and the effects of these changes on Black men's access to entry-level jobs, using open-ended interviews of managers at 56 firms in four industries. Managers reported that due to heightened competitive pressure, 'soft skills'-particularly motivation and ability to interact well with customers and coworkers-are becoming increasingly important. Many managers view Black men as lacking in these soft skills…
Precarious Labor, South and North
This special issue on precarious labor in global perspective includes analyses of precarious work in South Africa, Mexico, the United States, China and India. The key strengths of the contributions to this issue are that they demonstrate precarious workers’ capacity for collective action, the hidden forms of work that are not tracked by states, long-term historical continuities of precarious work, and differences between precarious work in the Gl…
Down and Out in the New Economy
Informality in action
We conceptualize informal work in relational terms, examining informality through the relations and interactions between and among a set of actors: capitalists, the state, organizations of informal workers, traditional trade unions, individual informal workers. We consider the leading explanations of the persistent growth of informal employment around the world, suggest that three such explanations (survivalist, structuralist, and “disembedded”) …
Free Labor
Explaining informal workers’ organizing experiments
Informal workers’ recent organizing efforts deserve our attention. They have defied the odds and launched alternative models that are more relevant to contemporary structures of globalized and neoliberal production than earlier industrial union-based organizing efforts. While some have succeeded in increasing protections and others have failed, all have relied on informal workers’ willingness to experiment with new organizational forms, rules, an…
Governance Lessons from Urban Informality
We locate this issue’s papers on a spectrum of radicalism. We then examine that spectrum, and the governance mechanisms described, through the lens of a significant arena of urban counter-planning: the urban informal economy. Drawing on our own research on self-organization by informal workers and settlers, as well as broader literatures, we suggest useful lessons for reinventing urban governance
The Unexpected Power of Informal Workers in the Public Square
Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face formidable structural obstacles to securing their rights as workers. Despite their apparent vulnerability, these informal workers have built perhaps the most powerful informal worker organizations in their countries. In this article, we explore and explain to the extent possible the sources, forms, and limits of this une…
Disintegrating Democracy at Work
All in the Family
The authors look at how family income depends on family structure. Using data from the 1973, 1979, and 1987, Current Population Survey, the authors examine four income sources (earnings, property, child support, and government transfers) among seven family types for all families and for Latino, black, and white householder families. The authors find large income differences among families–primarily due to differences in earnings–but little change…
Cities, states, trust, and rule
In the light of his essay “Cities, States and Trust Networks,” contributors to this collection were asked to consider ways of building on or departing from the late Charles Tilly’s work. The authors in this collection addressed four major themes: (1) historicism and historical legacies, (2) trust networks and commitment, (3) city–state relations, and (4) democracy and inequality. Authors concentrating on historicism examined how, despite unantici…
Experiments in power-building
This special issue examines how contemporary organizations of informal workers have experimented with power-building strategies across countries, employment sectors, and time periods. Its findings hold important lessons for our attempts to adapt to changing political and institutional structures and ultimately build a new model of social justice. In this introductory article, we first offer an intellectual history and motivation for the special i…
Shifting Tides of Informal Worker Resistance in Mexico
Informal workers in Mexico, the majority of the country's workforce, have organised to demand rights, but with varying results. In this article, we contrast recent organising by Mexico's domestic workers and informal construction workers. Household worker movements have succeeded in institutionalising significant new organisations and raising public awareness. Construction workers, despite earlier militant counterexamples, have remained trapped b…
Field Education and Community-Based Planning in a Worst-Case Scenario
Community-engaged planning education and community-based planning are often uphill battles. This article uses the case of a Mexican village to illustrate a pedagogical model that trains students as participatory planners by immersing them in a community-based planning project, an approach we call transformative learning and community development. We join larger debates on education and participation—arguing that students can and should learn abou…
Beyond Contratos de protección
As part of a long-standing debate about the extent to which official, government-linked unions in Mexico actively seek to win gains for their members, analysts of labor relations in Mexico have described the dominance of contratos de protección, collective bargaining contracts that offer little or nothing to workers while protecting employers from real union representation. In particular, a number of researchers have asserted that such contracts …
Working in large food retailers in France and the USA
Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs, and in particular the modal job, cashier. Notably, there are differences in pay, productivity and physical working position. Using the concept of 'national-sectoral models' of employment practices, this research draws on in-depth, interview-based case studies of food retailers in France and the USA, as well as standard…
Confronting Globalization
Mexico is unique in Latin America in that it has one of the strongest bodies of labor law (on paper) in the region; but there are also the problems of deficient state enforcement capacity and weak unions that are seen in poorer countries. This context has opened a space for new actors and the use of alternative approaches to protect labor that extend beyond conventional government-based policies. The state of Puebla is ideal for observing the imp…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Lousy Jobs, Invisible Unions
Globalization and modernization transformed the Mexican retail sector over the last two decades. One result is that Wal-Mart has become Mexico's dominant retailer. Another is the poor quality of jobs in the Mexican retail sector. Drawing on a variety of data sources, we review changes and current patterns in the characteristics and quality of retail jobs in Mexico. Retail jobs are worse than the Mexican average. Union coverage is widespread but o…
Restructuring the Employment Relationship
This masterly new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the Employment in Britain surveya national survey providing the richest source of evidence to date about individuals' experience of employmentit examines the impact of new technologies, the emergence of new management policies, the changing forms of employment con…
Socialism, Feminism and the stillbirth of Socialist Feminism in Europe, 1890-1920
growth of European socialism and feminism from collections of sects led by intellectuals to mass movements committed to political action. It might appeac that these years offered a unique opportunity for the two powerful movements to work together. On the surface, it appears that the two emancipatory ideologies and movements had much in common. The socialists of the Second International (1899-1914) held that socialism would lead to the liberation…
L'Etat, l'action collective et l'histoire A propos de trois livres
Mann Patrice. L'Etat, l'action collective et l'histoire. A propos de trois livres. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1985, 26-4. pp. 695-712
Socialism, Feminism and the stillbirth of Socialist Feminism in Europe, 1890-1920
growth of European socialism and feminism from collections of sects led by intellectuals to mass movements committed to political action. It might appeac that these years offered a unique opportunity for the two powerful movements to work together. On the surface, it appears that the two emancipatory ideologies and movements had much in common. The socialists of the Second International (1899-1914) held that socialism would lead to the liberation…
Understanding income inequality
All in the Family
The authors look at how family income depends on family structure. Using data from the 1973, 1979, and 1987, Current Population Survey, the authors examine four income sources (earnings, property, child support, and government transfers) among seven family types for all families and for Latino, black, and white householder families. The authors find large income differences among families–primarily due to differences in earnings–but little change…
Labour Economics
Cities
Soft' Skills and Race
We investigated changes in skill requirements and the effects of these changes on Black men's access to entry-level jobs, using open-ended interviews of managers at 56 firms in four industries. Managers reported that due to heightened competitive pressure, 'soft skills'-particularly motivation and ability to interact well with customers and coworkers-are becoming increasingly important. Many managers view Black men as lacking in these soft skills…
Faded Dreams
Just a Temp
Fat and Mean
Half a Job
The Centrality of Work
Modern Manors
Work under capitalism
Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the transaction rather than the individual, it builds upon a coherent theory and applies it to a wide range of experience, from household labor to transformations of health care in Great Britain and the United States. This book's analysis sheds new light on persisting inequal…
Work under capitalism
Urban Inequality
Stories Employers Tell
"Is the United States justified in seeing itself as a meritocracy, where stark inequalities in pay and employment reflect differences in skills, education, and effort? Or does racial discrimination still permeate the labor market, resulting in the systematic underhiring and underpaying of racial minorities, regardless of merit? Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s African Americans have lost ground to whites in the labor market, but this widening…
Restructuring the Employment Relationship
This masterly new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the Employment in Britain surveya national survey providing the richest source of evidence to date about individuals' experience of employmentit examines the impact of new technologies, the emergence of new management policies, the changing forms of employment con…
Reclaiming Work
The Boston Renaissance
Jobs for the Poor
Missives from Mexico
Lousy Jobs, Invisible Unions
Globalization and modernization transformed the Mexican retail sector over the last two decades. One result is that Wal-Mart has become Mexico's dominant retailer. Another is the poor quality of jobs in the Mexican retail sector. Drawing on a variety of data sources, we review changes and current patterns in the characteristics and quality of retail jobs in Mexico. Retail jobs are worse than the Mexican average. Union coverage is widespread but o…
Labor Pains
Free Labor
Economics (29 obras) · Political science (29 obras) · Sociology (28 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (20 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (16 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Labour economics (13 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Business (12 obras) · Political economy (11 obras)